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t~:-~ ~~_--: IMPEL' 1,11, Pilli. MENI HOUSE OF PEERS, hic ,, NDAY, JUNE 18. • rn the .Commii tee of Privileges on the Roxburgh Peerage,, the Lord Chancellor defiveted his opinion , at'length, which was supported by Lord Visc. Mel t le, : , nd in part differed from by Lord Lauderdale. he resolniinni'adopie.l were to the effett, that the dais ;titers of Henry Lord Ker, and the heirs male ot th?,i , bodies respeftitively, were entitled to succeed to the Eiridom ot Roxburgh, &c. seriatim, and that none of the parties had made good their claim to the Throny of Roxburgh. The Report of the. 'Com mittee to be takedinto consideration by the House on Wednesday morning: The Drury Lane Theatre Bill was read a third time, and passed with Amendments. SLAVE TRADE. Lord flot.l4NDtrusted; that 'the motion he was about to submit, would meet wi!ll their LordShips' coururrence. Whatever might tii•iginally have been th, difference of opinion on the subje& of the abo lition of the Slave Trade, it must now be the ge neral wishit that other countries might be induced to concur in that abolition which had been so happily 'eff7!‘,ted here. He was not disposed; at the present moment,. to - propose . any censure upon Ministers ; his only obje& \ was, that a pledgeshould be given by the House by an address to the Crown, praying that further steps might be taken to induce foreign Powers to abolish this nefarious traffic, More might have been clone by his Majesty's Ministers, particu larly with respect to. Sweden. With reference 'also to the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, he thought enough had not been done. There were only two Pr“vinces-'of the Spanish dominions, into which, upon the narrowest and. most miserable view of A . 'mistaken policy, the importkiOn of Slaves could be now of the least consequence, namely, Cuba and Buenos Ayres ;. to these Provinces, .according to his view of t.l.e subject, the abolition would be highly beneficial, and to the rest it Must, so far as any supposed mistaken interest was concerned, be a matter of perted indifference. He was aware that with respect to Portugal there was greater difficulty, because the trade was carried on from one Portu guese port in Africa to another Portuguese port in ti , e Brazils; and he willingly gave praise to Minis ters their proposition for purchasing the Portu guese territory in Africa, which would have placed the subjea upon a total different footing. He thought, however, 111.!t Some course might be adopted to effe& an abo Ilion which was so highly desirable, or at any rate to prevent'British capital from being covered byo foreign flag in carrying on thisinhuman traffic. It might ultitnately come to be a question whether the law of nations, well un. , derstood, did not authorize the treating all those persons as, pirates who persisted, ,in defiance of all , reason, justice, and huManity, if trading in hunian flesh; but the mean .time, no practicable induce-, ment ought to b-c left untried, to bring about, by common consent, fa general abolition of this dis graceful traffic. In the treaty which his Noble Friend (Lord Auckland) and hienselllid negociated with the Ainetican Ministers, an article had been itittodeed with reference to this subject'. Parlia ment iiad net then hilly agreed to the abolition, anu consequently an Artic:le upon the subjed could ndt be introduced with force . and effect, as if the abolition _bete had actually been sanalioned by the Legi•lature. That treaty, it was known, was mot ratified, but the American Legislature subse quently passed a law for the abolition of this trade. He was of opinion, that an arrangement might be adjusted in a satisfactory manner with the United States of America, by which a mutual power of executing the laws Of each coutitrymight be esta blihhed, by which ail the inhab'tants of the United Stai..s, who ailed in defiance of the laws of their own country in carrying on this trade , under a foreign flag, should be liable to capture by British ships of war, and all those persons here who carried on the trade in a similar manner, and who were equally, traitors to the laws of their country, ,shouldlae also liable to capture by American vessels. He was ex tremely anxious that some pledge should be given by the House of its desire for the general abolition of this inhuman traffic, feeling that the. Govern ment in its applications to foreign powers for this most desirable purpose would have those applica tions much strengthened by the determihation of the people of- the United Kingdom expressed through their legal organs, th e t wo H ouses of 'Parliament, and being convinced th a t if once a lt the. Powers of Europe had agreed upon the abolition, of this abo minable trade, that no State would afterwards yen-. ture again to establish it. He was the more anxious upon this point, observing how little had been dune, and how much there remained to be•done, to effeCt an objet of so mach importance to humanity and justice. Before lie sat down, he wished to do Justice to . the Island of Jamaica, in stating that he believed the planters of that 'island had, in general, paid a strict obedience to the Ad of Abolition, and had not attempted to evade it. His Lordship con cluded by moving ans Address to his Majesty,' pray ing that further steps might be taken induce Fo reign Powers to abolish this.trade. The Earl of LIVERPOOL had no objeiuion to the motion ; he had alWays agreed upon the principle obtoining the consent of other Powers to the abo lition of this trade, and every effort had been made by Ministers to effect this objea. With respect to Sweden, which was tie only apparently doubtful point, the-laa was, that preVious to 'the circum stances which had' lately happened, a negociation was on foot for a commercial treaty with that Power, and it was thought better to introduce an article re lative to the abolition• of this trade into the treaty, than to Make it the subje6fof a separate negociation. He agreed with the Noble Lord with respect, to the disposition of the planters of Jamaica to pay a strict obedience to the Act of Abolition, and that be- . ing the case, there, could be no difficulty as to the other Islands. The Address was agreed to nem. dis. and ordered to be presented by the Lords with white staves. DISSENTERS. Lord Viscount StoM - otrrit adverted to the inten tion he had formerly expressed of bringing forward in the course of the Session, some m(Aiun relative to the mode of granting licenses Co Dissenting Teachers. , He thought it a subjea considerable importance, as under the present mode of executing the ALls, if a person presented himself to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions, and took the oath of allegiai and subscribed the, declaration required by law, he was entitled of right to a certificate, which entitled him, whatever might be his age,' whatever might tc his ignorance, or whatever might be his depravity, to preach and teach any . doNtines he pleased, and whiCh entitled. him also, whether be did preach or teach or not,- to exempt;on from parochial offices, and from service in the militia. This, his Lordship considered as an abuse to which a remedy ought to applied, He had, however, upon mature consider tion, determined to postpone till next Sessions, ,the bringing forward any motion upon the subjed. He wished it, Lt the same time, to be distirittly 'under stood, that he meant nothing hostile to :he Dissen ters. He co ns id er ed t h e Tolration AN as the pal ladium of religious libeTty:and . had not the slightest intention oft proposing any infr'.a3etnent of it. Eat! STANHOPE" wished th a t die Noble Viscount bad stated what his intentions were. Lord Viscount SIDNIOUTH stited his obje& to be, that no person should be entitled to a certificate at the Sessions as a Preacher and Teacher,.nnless he was appointed to a COngregation, and had certifi cates from some Members of the same religious persuasion of his fitness for that station; and had at tained the years of discretion. Lord HOLLAND Wa9 not aware of the existence of any abuses which could induce him to consent to lessen the operation of the Toleration AN. CLERGY. The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Appropriation Bill. Lord ifoLLAND,objeaed to the appropriation of 100,0001. to Queen Anne's bounty for the'poorer Clergy. He thought the present a Most, unpropi tious season for such a grant, at a time when bur dens presied so heavily upon the people. Another, objection was, that it Was'a .mere tempdraiy grant, and did not form, part of any permanent. system for ameliorating the situation of the poorer Clergy, nor was be satisfied with the mode in which the money granted for this purpose was, applied. He did not mean to cast the slightest reflection upon the Go vernors of Queen Anne's Bounty ; on the Contrary, he believed that no abuse existed in the management of the funds of that establiqmient but he obje6.led to the mode of the application. „He thought that the relief of the poorer, Clergy might be elfeCted to a manner much less objectionable than adding to the burdens of the people, by means of the higher benefices, either by raxing them in cekain propor tions, or in some other mode, and that certain bene fices; where , no duty was attached, might be, suspended, and the profits appropriated to a fund for tie relief of the poorer Cl er gy ; some regulations might also be made with respect to livings in the gift of the Crown. The. 'Earl of HARROWBY, supported the grant, which he contended to be absolutely necessary, if they wished to prevent the Esiablished Church from becoming a mere name,.. The higher benefices, with very -exceptions, did not produce more than sufficient to support the dignity attached Ao.them. his Ltirdship adverted to" the increase of Dissenting Aleeting-houses, observing, that in the fist•l4 years of the present reign the licenses for them were 1400, whilst in the, last 14 years they amounted to up wards of 7000 3 and that the whole number grauted in the present reign amounted to 12,260. To con tend against this they had 1 i,OOO benefiCes of the Established Church, in many of which the Ministers were non-resident. He contended, therefore, that it was absolutely necessary to give a greater etEcien- Cy to the Church, by increasing the amount of the benefices of the poorer Clergy, and he thought it would be highly expedient to adopt some more stri& regulations for either enforcing residence or giving to the Curate, in case of the non-residence of the Incumbent, a larger proportion of the income of-the benefice. Eat' STANHOPE said, that, however he might in general differ from the Noble Earl, he had always hsterwd to him with a certain degree of satisfaetion, because that Noble Earl always appeared, as contra - - distinguished to many of-his colleagues, to speak really what he meant. There was about him no affeCted obscurity, no .inclination to evade the dis cussion of a question, and to confine himself to the object of misleading their Lordships. In his pre sent speech there was much to approve, and he (Earl Stanhope) had only to obServe, that if from his lips some like observations had -fallen, he would be charged as a libeller of the Church, as the enemy to our religious interests, and plague knew what.— For what said the Noble Earl in defence of the pre seht grant ? The Church of .Engla.pd is poor, said he, and it will be impossible that it can hold up against its numerous foes, unless it is supported in all its strength and dignity. To many parts of thdt observation he had strong objections. Did he (Lord }Tarrowby) mean to 'say, that the only way to sup port your religious establishment was by voting to it the public money ? Did he mean to tell those who differed from it, that the strength and security of the Protestant Religion lay, in its accumulation of riches ?. If such was his opinion, he fedred he would increase' instead of diminishing the number of persons who dissented from it, and whom the Noble Earl, per haps rather warmly, had designated as the foes to the Church ot -England. 'Could it be tolerated, that because men differed in certain points of discpline, (for instance, in the case of Baptists, who thought Baptism should not take place until the age of dis cretion), that therefore they were foes to the Church. It was unjust to make such .aspersions —but it was consistent with the cry of No Popery. But be would tell the Noble Earl, that those Dissenters, those foes to the Church, as he styled them, would continue to increase eve n f rom t h e num b er as taken from their 12,000 'Chapels; when they found that the advocates of the Church Establishment conceiv4 ed that its best means of security was to be conti nually applying for public money. He would ven ture to. predict that, whether you voted six mil lions or sixty millions, whether you built churches or no churches, whether you CaluMniated Dissen-' ters or otheriise, the number of Communicants of the establishtnent would decrease, and that of Dis- senters . increase, as long as they saw the. Church of England made the engine of state po;icy, as long as they saw its prelates translated and preferred, not for their religious merits, but their slavish support to the Minister of the day. Fur 'he would ask the Noble Earl fairly to answer, if he knew of no pre ferments in the higher rooks of the Clergy cpnter red upon such pret6isions ? When hi saw the Bishops, according to the injonctiuns of their reli gion, voting against wars, when hi saw them vot ing for the liberties of the people, then he world pronounce that the Church of England had,no rea son.to fear. But it was always thecase fOr:.an esta blishment to decline, when the Clergy drew their emoluments by compulsory means. Ile people had no interest in their support, although they had no objthiOn to subscribe, 'and that liberally, for those religious instrualors that were not so provided. In America it was wisely ordained that the Clergy means.-- There no t b e pa id b y any com p u l sory There was beside that a positive law, that any bond given to a priest for the performance of religious' duties could not be recovered in a court of, law, and for this shrewd American reason,--that as it was the end of all-religious instruelion to make people ho nest, the very necessity of being compelled to sue for the payment of thibo'nd either .proved that the priest had ,not done his duty, or that the person sued was not honest, and that in either case the in- strueior had no claim to compensation. . . Alter some observations from Lords Liverpool, Sidmouth, and Holland,i the clause was , agreed to, the Bill committed, and the third reading fixed for to-morrow. Lord HAWKESBURY intimated his intention of moving the committal of the East India Loan Bill to=morrow. Adjourned. MAILS. ARRIVED—I Cottenburgh, r Waterford. DUB--t Lisbon, Cadiz, 1 Malta, z Dublin, t Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE• O'CLOCK. Consols for Opening . 71 Omnium - T.' II S U N. SOLF'I QUIS DICERE FALSU'i AUDEAT ? L W.l) 0 TUESDAY, .11./kE 19, 1810. There are a variety of rumours from Spain and Portugal, respeeting the,Movernents of the British and French armies, and some of them even state that a great battle has been fought. These rein f Ours are, however, without .any foundation ; but we think it very probable that' we shall very soon hear of a decisive battle between Lord WELLII4GTON and General MA S SENA. The last Dispatches from his Lordship expressed, 'we understand, his opinion that a battle would vety, soon take place. This morning a Goltenturgh Mail arrived. stated in an article from Stockholm, that a marriage had been negociated between the Crown Prince of Sweden, who lately died of an apoplexy, and a (laughter of LUCIEN 115UONAPARTE. A Courier is said to have arrived, with BUONAPARTE'S consent to the match just after the Prince's death. I.,efters frOmPetersburgh mention the pr(ibability of a change in the admiriistration of that country, which is likely to create a coolness with France. BUt BUON APARTE's'recent alliance with the House of Austria, will make him very indifferent as to the deiermina- . tions of the Emperor ALEXANDER. It is said that Austria is about to cede her possessions in Gallicia, for which she is to receive a valuable compensa tion. It is We lal.ve made some Extraets from the French Papers, the arrival of Which we mentioned yester day. The intelligence frOm Spain is ver y scanty. With respeal to the siege of Cadiz, they ar e qu i te silent. The circumstances attending the capture of the East India. Company's 'Settlement of Tapponoolly, which we mentioned on Friday last, were of so atrocious a nature, that if they reach the French Go ternment, we have little doubt that ,the perpetrators 'of it will be - disrnissed from the service and proper ly puniahed. The capture took place, as we stated; on the 12th of April. Mr. PRINCE, the Company's Resident, was absent at Bencoolen, and Mr. HAYES aEled in his place. The garrison were too few in number to resist the assailants, but they did not surrender till they found resistance hdpeless.-L • Captain ItIrAUD, of the Creole frigate, who took the Settlement,, on landing, ; promised Mr. HAYES that all private property: should be respected, as will that belonging to the Malays, who inhabits d the place, as that belonging to the British Officers, Residents 4nd Seapoys. He very soon, bOwever, forgot his promise, seized upon every thing be could, get hold of, and wantonly destroyed what could riot be removed. But this was not all—he destroyed all the public records and account_ books, , for the pur pose of ,concealing ere nature and amount of what he had seized, and under pretence that Mr. HAYES had secreted two boxes of gold dnst, had him con fined, and he, as well as the rest of the inhabitants, were hardly supplied with food. The Ladies and subordinate females, who had run for shelter in the woods, were .fired on in the pursuit' by the ruffian besiegers; and one Woman and . her child who was overtaken, were exposed to the most brutal treat ment. At length the French Commodore, HAMELIN, ar- rived at the Rlace, and an appeal was made by Mr. HAYES to his justice and humanity, but without ef feet. He approvel of all that had been dope by. Captain R1',41), concurred with the latter in ac U cusing Mr. Hi ; ° sling Pii uttering the most florionsrlitemetlacesuc duj' unless is waj produced. It was n vain that proofs were offe' e that no such c o n cea l ment h a d b een ma d e, arid " 13t no such property was in the Settlement, the sP le barbarous treatment was continue...i, and the Who l ! of the vialitns of this wanton cruelty were re ' moved to the Isle of France, after they had beer), required to ransom' the Settlement, when they 1141 been deprived of every thing they possessed.. To complete this infamous violation of • natioll3 justice, and disregard of every humane and honour' , able feeling, the whole orthe Settlement was set °. fire, and Commodore HAMELIN expressed the LSIOS savage exultation in witnessing the destrueliob , • al his vessels were leaving the place. A party of soldiers, under the command of 1 11 PAUD had been previously sent to the country- 116u . se of Mr. PRINCE, the absent and of course unotien ti ‘ ing Resident, who completely destroyed it, with ai l its contents; the stableslalso were consumed, S ese' ral valuable horses were turned loose intu the %%ro ds ' and a flock of fifty head of fine cattle were & al l destroyed by shooting them. Such was the condua of an enemy who Pre tends to respea the rights of property, and tratoPl es upon every principle of justice and every feeling 01 , humanity, though our countrymen upon e very ac" casion set them an example of generosity, and AO expose their own lives to rescue their foes when till are no longer capable. of .hostility, a n d, i n dinge.r of perishing. It is stated in the public prints, that the Office of the Royal ArtillerY, in which Mr. DODD IS C a r taro, have had a,meeting, at which it was resolve(' that they could not any longer associate with hini an Officer or a Gentleman ; and it is added, tha t 3 representation founded upon that resolution has been draun up and transmitted to Lord Mui.GRAvE, a s Master-General of the Ordnance. On Sunday evening his MAJESTY, and Princeses Sopuiti•and ,ELIZAtETH, walked on Wii,dsor Ter race till half past eight o'clock. Hiti MAJESTY W° s accompanied by Lords RIVERS and BULKELEY ; G C nerals CHERVELEY, GARTH, and E rrznoY , Lady COLLYEft, Miss GOLDSWORTH Y, and the Hon. Mr s " DA M ER. • The Terrace was crowded v ith the 6 1 ' 4 fashionabies of beauty and tas'e, whilst the Bood s of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) played a nutobt, of martial airs. • . . Her MAJESTY and Princess AUGUSTA visited Pria' cess AMELIA, W 14114 hi. MAJESTY and the other Princeses were on the Tel - f t - ace. ,Yeser: ay m aning.tho Duke of YORK arrived 3t Windsor, and rode out with hls MAJESTY and Fri''' . cesses AUGUSTA 'and SOPHIA, till twelve o'clud c " His MAJESTY was accoin d anied by the Marquis CORk/WALLLS, Lord RIVERS, Count MUNST"' Generals GARTH and FITZROY, and aolonel TA" LOR. Princess,AmELlA remains the- same as she 11135 done for several days past. • Dr. POPE IS :n constant ;ttendance upon her Rcyal Highne,s., We are happy to find that all possible vrecsuti o9 is to be taken to prevent disturbance the GLensioll of the release of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT frot sonment on Thursday next. The Vo:unteer Corp have received orders to be under arms ) and the Rosg and Renfrew Militia are to do duty a: the Tower , in the room of the Veteran Battalion. ; This morning the Hertford Regiment of Militia marched into Islingtktt The 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons are also arrived in this metropolis, and are stationed in St. George'"' fields and Camberwell. Several other Regiments have arrived, and more are expetled to-morrow: ,The following is said to be the latest =hell' tic accounts from 'the British head-quarters in :Portugal " CELERICO, MAY 23.- 7 -A French Officer, bear ing the Cross of the Legion of Honour, arrived at •the Britih camp on the !list, having deserted, in consequence, as he said, ,of having been provoked to cut down his superior Officer 'while on duty.- - This Officer stated that MASSENA had joined the French army with reinforcetnents, Which made the entire rimpbers under his 'command along the ; fro tier amount to 80,000, or lion) that tn. 84,000 rhea; and had his head-quarters at Salamanca ; but that this force, however formidable in collective nom:- bets, was not held, adequate to the imastouof For , - tugal." 7 ---The Informattoo ;given by spies and de serters must 'always be received with dt4rust -; but as it was a known tad that the collection and con- ,veyance of supplies was matter of exireme difficult)" and insecurity in a cou nt ry where the Frenchcould be said to be masters only of the surface they occupied with a military force, and where their convoys at;d foraging parties were constantly annoyed \ by the peasants, who cut oft all straggk:rs, it was thought that not more than, half the total numbers under -MASSENA could attempt to enter Portugal with a chance. of suhsislence, and with the assurance , leaving a sufficient force to keep the Spaniards in awe; and from this conviction Lord WECLINGTOr kept his , position, not , thinking it advisable to ad vance, not necessary to retreat. "' In the front of Ciudad Rodrigo the enemy had three small corps, making colleotively about 9000 men. These corps had suffered and were still sof tering . so much from sickness, arising from the effects of the rains and the heat, that they were un able to form the siege of the place, which, though fortified Upon an old plan, is considered perfectly safe, being well provisioned, and having a strong garrison. " Private letters from iPortalegre state, that in consequence of some disagreeable circustances, in which -the Spanish General, BALLASTEROS, had been involved (the parziculars of which are not, mentioned) a British corps, of about 600 men, con sisting priirripally of cavalry, under tho command of General Hill, had proceeded from Elvas to Badajos, and succeeded in-the objects of its march." ■